It has been a while since I posted here. There have been many developments in all sorts of ways.

One of the things I have created is an SSDP Library for BlackBerry. This allows the BlackBerry to automatically discover network devices, such as Sonos Zones, on the Wifi network,so the user no longer needs to type in (and get wrong) the IP address of a Zone Player to get started. It also means that Tiggit Controller will continue to work if IP addresses change.

I have also been working on a whole list of new features for Tiggit Controller, along with a complete overhaul of the user interface. There is still quite a lot to do for that project, as it includes things like Sirius and Napster support, and it is not yet ready for release.

Yesterday I decided that I would back-port the SSDP Discovery code to the current ‘latest’ version so that users can benefit from the much easier set up.

The UI is still not so pretty, and the discovery bit looks a little clunky, but I felt better to get it out there than worry about final UI polish for now.

There is one other new feature: you can now use the volume buttons on the side of the BlackBerry to control the volume on the currently active zone. There remains a number of issues around volume control when zones are linked, but that has been fixed in version 1.2.

Since the Storm was released there have been problems using Tiggit Mail on the Storm and the Storm 2. In short under certain configurations, the Storm (2) will crash unexpectedly, possibly several times a day.

Storm users may recall that earlier versions of the RIM OS had problems that caused the Storm to crash, but the OS is now much more stable. Regardless of this, tiggit mail (until now) causes the Storm to crash when it is used.

I have just posted a new version of tiggit mail 1.1.20.6 that appears to fix the Storm crash problem. Existing users can download simply by selecting Update from the settings menu, or buy using their BlackBerry browser to go here

I have had a number of questions about both Tiggit Mail and Tiggit Controller running on the new BlackBerry 9800 “Torch”.

As far as I can tell, running the code on the simulator, there is no reason that Tiggit Mail should not run on the Torch, but of course all the usual constraints around carriers and corporate installations will apply.

I have a Torch on order, so when Vodafone makes them available in the UK, I will be able to provide some more definite information.

When there are outstanding session requests in the session queue, and the user attempts to exit tiggit mail, the exit command will fail. Under certain circumstances, this may mean that it is not possible to exit tiggit mail.

This problem is fixed in a patch to 1.1.20 that I have just posted.

There is an additional change that improves the image loader for html messages.

Version 1.1.19 was fully released a little while ago. Unfortunately there is a problem using tiggit mail without an SD-Card, that causes messages larger than the pre-load size to be corrupted. And so, version 1.1.20, preview 1 is now available for download.

This version fixes the problem above, and adds support for character sets that are not natively supported on the BlackBerry device. This release adds

windows-1250 & iso-8859-2 – Central Europe

windows-1251 & iso-8859-5 – Cyrillic

windows-1253 & iso-8859-7 – Greek

windows-1254 & iso-8859-9 – Turkish

windows-1255 & iso-8859-8 – Hebrew

windows-1256 & iso-8859-6 – Arabic

windows-1258 – Vietnamese

iso-8859-15 – European

(BlackBerrys only support four character sets natively as the character set conversion is handled in the BlackBerry infrastructure. As emails can be sent in a wide variety of character sets, tiggit mail needs to know how to handle these character sets.)

tiggit mail

tiggit mail is an IMAP, POP3 and SMTP client for BlackBerry. It allows access to major internet and email service providers such as AOL, Google Mail, mac.com and Yahoo! mail. tiggit mail is suitable for most BlackBerry handhelds, and works on both corporate and personal devices.

Latest Version

The latest general available version of tiggit mail is
1.1.19.0

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